I look not to Republicans as the cause of my imminent and literal pennilessness. ❋ Unknown (2011)
There was nothing particularly funny about his current plight to Twain, who clung literally to his last dime, afraid, he said, that complete pennilessness “might suggest suicide.” ❋ JR. ROY MORRIS (2010)
To hear her tell it, rich, supportive husbands are always dropping dead of heart attacks, or going to the loony bin, or running off with the secretary, leaving poor “Patsy” on the perilous precipice of pennilessness. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Now, Connor Cochran, Beagle's business manager, writes in with this grim news about Beagle being ripped off by the British company that adapted his novel for animation, and Beagle's difficulty in fighting back due to his general pennilessness: ❋ Unknown (2005)
And she could weigh against that the absolute pennilessness of her baronet-son. ❋ Unknown (2004)
They lived in dread of the pettiest casual expense, for the day of pennilessness was again approaching. ❋ Unknown (2003)
My efforts are utterly vain; I suppose the prospect of pennilessness is itself a hindrance; the fear haunts me. ❋ Unknown (2003)
In the midst of young Redburn's good manners and proper upbringing, his being the son of a Melville and a Gansevoort is a grotesque irrelevance; the truth of his life as others see it is his abject pennilessness, his humbling ragged clothes. ❋ Hardwick, Elizabeth (2000)
To his dire and utter pennilessness, Cousin Tryphena's tiny income seemed a fortune. ❋ Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1918)
He said he had been thinking of a shop himself; though it had presented itself to his pennilessness as a small place in which Eliza should sell tobacco at one counter whilst he sold newspapers at the opposite one. ❋ Unknown (1916)
To-morrow Helen might be mistress of a bonanza; to-morrow she might be, as she was to-night, a girl but briefly removed from pennilessness. ❋ Jackson Gregory (1912)
He had planned what it should be -- the story it should tell of a disheartened mediocre venturer of his poor all returning bankrupt and humiliated from Australia, ending existence in such pennilessness that the parish must give him a pauper's grave. ❋ Unknown (1905)
He had patients, too, whose inveterate pennilessness he could swear cheerfully to -- "since you want to bolt from your own money," he remarked. ❋ Owen Wister (1899)
The prospect of abject pennilessness filled the damsel's eyes with woe. ❋ William John Locke (1896)
For, whatever their attainments and performances in preaching or in pastoral work may do to enrich others, one thing is certain: all they do only impoverishes to pennilessness the men who put their whole life and their whole heart into the performance of such work. ❋ Whyte, Alexander (1894)
Christopherson's face was sufficient answer; it reminded me of his pennilessness. ❋ George Gissing (1880)
